Arts, Literature, and Humanities

Bridging Souls—A Journey from Mahabharata to Bharata is a thought-provoking and scholarly book that juxtaposes the events of Mahabharata with the s...

British Romantic Poets — Critical Assessments is a selection of some of best critical writings available on the British Romantic period of English ...

The reputation of Wordsworth, once regarded as the most important exponent of English Romanticism, has, strangely, been quite controversial, and th...

British Victorian Literature — Critical Assessments is a cross-section of some of the most insightful and perceptive critical writings ever publish...

This cool, clear-sighted comparative study has no theological axe to grind. It offers a trusty thematic guide to the figureheads of three of the la...

K Satchidananda Murty (1924–2011) was a vociferous writer and an iconoclast. In recognition of his contribution in the field of Philosophy, he was ...

These volumes of the Sacred Books of the East series include transaltions of all the most important works of the seven non-christian religions.

These volumes of the Sacred Books of the East series include transaltions of all the most important works of the seven non-christian religions.

Buddhists: Understanding Buddhism through the Lives of Practitioners provides a series of case studies of Asian and modern Western Buddhists, spann...

After Shakespeare the most famous British author in Europe, in Britain Byron was for years either neglected, or a victim of the myth of his own per...

Candida, a classic comedy, was written in 1894. Set in London's East End during the Victorian era, the play is about the domestic turmoil that ensu...

Candide, a privileged and sheltered young man, is under the folly of optimism and believes he lives in the 'best of all possible worlds' as his men...

Today, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children seem to be the only hope, the only refuge, appealing not only to th...

Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention towards children’s literature, Canons of Children’s Literature, (Vol. II) explores an emerging body ...

Today, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children seem to be the only hope, the only refuge, appealing not only to th...

How should case studies be selected? Is case study methodology fundamentally different to that of other methods? What, in fact, is a case? Case Stu...

This book looks at Dalits in the city and examines the nature of Dalit aspirations as well as the making of an urban sensibility through an analysi...

Dickens offers us in Hard Times (1854) a morally serious content cast in the form of popular entertainment. The principal motive of Hard Times is t...